I reviewed books from the mystery box last post. These are the ones that tie directly into #FantasyComicsMonth, as there were a number in the box that had sword and sorcery or fantasy themes. Most of them are independent comics, which I think is the case for most fantasy books these days because aside from …
Continue reading Mini-Reviews of Comics from a Modern-Day Mystery Box, Part Two
Something that you'll hear me talk about once I finally release my Baltimore Comic-Con episode of Pop Culture Affidavit is how I bought a $20 mystery box from one of the booths (I think Third Eye Comics?). There were 25 comics inside plus a trade paperback as well as a few variant cover editions, so …
Continue reading Mini-Reviews of Comics from a Modern-Day Mystery Box, Part One
One of the titles that I haven't really been writing about much on this blog but that I have been slowly collecting is the 1980s Marvel series King Conan (later titled Conan the King). I wound up with a copy of issue #27 in a Marvel grab bag from my LCS once, loved the story, …
So #FantasyComicsMonth continues and this time around, I'm grabbing some books that I've been holding onto for at least a year in addition to some that I picked up at this year's Baltimore Comic-Con. They both have to do with the same character: Beowulf, the famous viking epic hero that you probably read about in …
I'm behind on quite a few things this month because of both work and some personal stuff. Those few things not only include work (in fact, I have a ton of essays to grade that are sitting to my left) but two podcast episodes and a bunch of blog posts for this site. What's been …
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 21 (83/261)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 4 (2/14)Books Read: 5 (108/125)Movies Watched: 1 (170/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (55/58)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (99/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 178 So I thought I would write about vacation and its effect on my hobbies. I ahve always …
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Quasar-32.jpg/220px-Quasar-32.jpg So back around the time I first started this blog, I read through several random issues of Quasar and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed them. I don't know why I had thought the character was lame or some sort of '90s mort, but that had been my impression going in and …
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 3 (98/261)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 4 (6/14)Books Read: 0 (110/125)Movies Watched: 7 (171/194)TV Series Watched: 1 (55/58)TV Seasons Watched: 1 (99/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 156 Okay, so this is my second attempt at this point because WordPress decided to freeze on me and ate my entire first draft. So …
It started with a class project. The scrapbooks as they originally existed. There were five albums total, all with essays and/or captions. Truthfully, it started with a trip to Europe in the summer of 1994--between my junior and senior years of high school--because if not for that trip, I wouldn't have had any pictures to …
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Carroll is one of those short stories that for at least a couple of generations in high school English. The premise, in case you're not familiar with it, is that a big game hunter named Rainsford falls off of a yacht and washes up on the private island of …
The Uncollecting 
